PSY 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cerebral Cortex, Aphasia, Mental Disorder
20 Nov 2017
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Mental status is a person"s emotional and cognitive functioning. Optimal functioning aims toward simultaneous life satisfaction in work, caring relationships and within the self. Usually, mental status strikes a balance between good and bad days, allowing person to function socially and occupationally. Assessing mental status is very different than listening to an individuals heart or lung sounds. Their mental status may not be easily identi ed and likely take some time to investigate on your part. We are able to assess their mental status through: language, mood and affect, orientation, attention, memory, abstract reasoning, through process and thought content, perceptions. The health or illness of someone"s mental status is tested when we experience traumatic life events (death or serious illness) Individuals react to traumatic events differently but with proper coping skills or mental health they will return to the their previous mental status.
